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Lewis Tankers wins new biofuels contract
PetroIneos Fuels has awarded a two-year contract to Lewis Tankers to transport biofuel from its bulk storage tanks in Grangemouth Docks to its fuel terminal at the Grangemouth refinery. The...
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Essar Energy Transition unveiled with $2.4 billion Stanlow investment to create UK hub for future energy production
...term sustainable future for Stanlow, protecting and creating new highly skilled job opportunities at the heart of the Northern Powerhouse economy for generations to come.” Most sustainable refinery in Europe...
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Valero fuels another season of RNLI lifesaving
Members of the Tenby lifeboat crew thank Valero for its life-saving gift RNLI volunteers in Angle and Tenby have thanked Valero Pembroke Refinery, following another vital donation of fuel oil...
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Essar Oil UK: Stanlow Manufacturing Complex
...2030 and will achieve its net zero emission target by 2040. Essar is committed to becoming the UK’s first low carbon refinery, investing over $1.2 billion over the next five...
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Slicker Recycling acquires RE:Group
...in a 100,000 tonne per annum base oil re-refinery situated in Denmark. RE:Groups’ managing director Paul Waine, will remain with the business and has joined the board of Greenbottle. Paul...
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UKPIA welcomes support for decarbonisation projects
...play in decarbonising industry as well as supporting high quality jobs right across the UK throughout the energy transition. North West – Essar’s Stanlow refinery is central to the HyNet...
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Total UK prosecuted
...at Total’s Lindsey Oil Refinery on 29th June 2010. In an external statement, the company said: Total UK Limited deeply regrets the accident in 2010 and wishes to repeat its...
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Wincanton renews Total contract
...two companies – means that Wincanton will continue to manage Total’s maintenance warehouse facility at the Lindsey oil refinery in Lincolnshire. Under the terms of the agreement Wincanton retains responsibility...
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Long-term contract for Valero
...mid-2020. Valero’s Pembroke refinery is helping to fuel 116 Co-op filling stations Credit: John Sturrock, www.johnsturrock.com Valero, which has worked with Co-op since 2005, will manage the supply of fuel...
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Delivering SAF at scale: a sector investing in future production
...the early projects, Phillips 66 Humber Refinery near Immingham is producing thousands of tonnes of SAF that are powering British Airways flights. The SAF is produced from sustainable waste cooking...
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Lewis Tankers wins biofuel transport contract
...terminal at the Grangemouth refinery. To meet the UK government’s targets under the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation, refiners are required to blend gasoline with a proportion of bioethanol, currently 5%. ...
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Puma Energy acquires BP’s Belfast terminal
...of handling MR class vessels. The site comprises 20 bulk fuel storage tanks with a working capacity of ca. 143 000 m3. The 53 acre former refinery site is located...
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Essar introduces cost efficiency initiatives at Stanlow
Volker Shultz, Essar Oil UK chief executive Essar Oil UK has reconfigured its Stanlow Refinery to increase the production of high value products and further reduce the amount of fuel...
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Cautious industry response to fuel resilience bill
...the face of global or domestic risks. Risks to supply Plans for a Resilience Bill for the sector first emerged in 2017, in the wake of the 2012 Coryton refinery...
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Slicker Recycling shortlisted for award
...75 million litres of used lubricating oil every year, is shortlisted in the ‘Circular Economy Success’ category for the successful launch of its £70 million base oil re-refinery in Denmark...
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Taking strategic action
...landing white fish. Presently being revamped, the expectation is that much larger fishing vessels will use Peterhead in the future. With its Humber refinery well-positioned on the east coast, Phillips...
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Valero to purchase SemLogistics’ Milford Haven storage facility
...for the purchase of SemLogistics Milford Haven fuel storage facility. Situated across the Haven from Valero’s refinery at Pembroke, the facility is one of the UK’s largest petroleum products storage...
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Carbon capture project emerges from Humber refineries
...the region makes the Humber a critical partner in the UK government’s ambition to achieve a net zero carbon economy by 2050. Darren Cunningham, UK lead executive at Humber Refinery...